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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Jeremy LeCrone , Yuanzhen Shao , Gieri Simonett

We study a variational problem for piecewise-smooth hypersurfaces in the (n+1)-dimensional Euclidean space with an anisotropic energy. An anisotropic energy is the integral of an energy density that depends on the normal at each point over…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Miyuki Koiso

Let n>2, $0<m\le (n-2)/n$, p>\max(1,(1-m)n/2), and $0\le u_0\in L_{loc}^p(R^n)$ satisfy $\liminf_{R\to\infty}R^{-n+\frac{2}{1-m}}\int_{|x|\le R}u_0\,dx=\infty$. We prove the existence of unique global classical solution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-19 Shu-Yu Hsu

We prove existence in the Minkowski space of entire spacelike hypersurfaces with constant negative scalar curvature and given set of lightlike directions at infinity; we also construct the entire scalar curvature flow with prescribed set of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-16 Pierre Bayard

We prove that a proper weak solution $\{ \Omega_{t} \}_{0 \leq t < \infty}$ to inverse mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{H}^{n}$, $3\leq n \leq 7$, is smooth and star-shaped by the time \begin{equation*} T= (n-1) \log \left( \frac{\text{sinh}…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Brian Harvie

We consider the inverse mean curvature flow by parallel hypersurfaces in space forms. We show that such a flow exists if and only if the initial hypersurface is isoparametric. The flow is characterized by an algebraic equation satisfied by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Alancoc dos Santos Alencar , Keti Tenenblat

In this article, we establish the existence of a family of hypersurfaces $(\Gamma (t))_{0< t \leq T}$ which evolve by the vanishing mean curvature flow in Minkowski space and which as $t$ tends to~$0$ blow up towards a hypersurface which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Hajer Bahouri , Alaa Marachli , Galina Perelman

In this paper, we establish existence results for positive solutions to the Lichnerowicz equation of the following type in closed manifolds -\Delta u=A(x)u^{-p}-B(x)u^{q},\quad in\quad M, where $p>1, q>0$, and $A(x)>0$, $B(x)\geq0$ are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Li Ma , Yuhua Sun

In this article we investigate a family of nonlinear evolutions of polygons in the plane called the $\beta$-polygon flow and obtain some results analogous to results for the smooth curve shortening flow: (1) any planar polygon shrinks to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-13 David Glickenstein , Jinjin Liang

We construct embedded ancient solutions to mean curvature flow related to certain classes of unstable minimal hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ for $n \geq 2$. These provide examples of mean convex yet nonconvex ancient solutions that are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Alexander Mramor , Alec Payne

We prove that the unit sphere is the only smooth, strictly convex solution to the isotropic $L_p$ dual Minkowski problem \begin{align*} h^{p-1} |D h|^{n+1-q}\mathcal{K}=1, \end{align*} provided $(p,q)\in (-n-1,-1]\times [n,n+1)$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Yingxiang Hu , Mohammad N. Ivaki

In [Calc. Var., 57:5 (2018)], Hong-Ye-Zhang proposed the $p$-capacitary Orlicz-Minkowski problem and proved the existence of convex solutions to this problem by variational method for $p\in(1,n)$. However, the smoothness and uniqueness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Bin Chen , Weidong Wang , Xia Zhao , Peibiao Zhao

In the first part of this paper, we develop the theory of anisotropic curvature measures for convex bodies in the Euclidean space. It is proved that any convex body whose boundary anisotropic curvature measure equals a linear combination of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Ben Andrews , Yitao Lei , Yong Wei , Changwei Xiong

We show, for mean curvature flows in Euclidean space, that if one of the tangent flows at a given space-time point consists of a closed, multiplicity-one, smoothly embedded self-similar shrinker, then it is the unique tangent flow at that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-12 Felix Schulze

In this paper, we investigate closed strictly convex hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ which shrink self-similarly under a large family of fully nonlinear curvature flows by high powers of curvature. When the speed function is given by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Shanze Gao , Haizhong Li , Xianfeng Wang

In this paper, we consider the contracting curvature flow of smooth closed surfaces in $3$-dimensional hyperbolic space and in $3$-dimensional sphere. In the hyperbolic case, we show that if the initial surface $M_0$ has positive scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Yingxiang Hu , Haizhong Li , Yong Wei , Tailong Zhou

If $\psi:M^n\to \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ is a smooth immersed closed hypersurface, we consider the functional $\mathcal{F}_m(\psi) = \int_M 1 + |\nabla^m \nu |^2 \, d\mu$, where $\nu$ is a local unit normal vector along $\psi$, $\nabla$ is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Carlo Mantegazza , Marco Pozzetta

In this paper, we prove the uniqueness of solutions to the logarithmic Minkowski problem in $\mathbb{R}^3$ without symmetry condition, provided the density of the measure is close to $1$ in $C^{\alpha}$ norm. This result also implies the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Shibing Chen , Yibin Feng , Weiru Liu

This article derives closed-form parametric formulas for the Minkowski sums of convex bodies in d-dimensional Euclidean space with boundaries that are smooth and have all positive sectional curvatures at every point. Under these conditions,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Sipu Ruan , Gregory S. Chirikjian

We study the rescaled mean curvature flow (MCF) of hypersurfaces that are global graphs over a fixed cylinder of arbitrary dimensions. We construct an explicit stable manifold for the rescaled MCF of finite codimensions in a suitable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Jingxuan Zhang